Influence of Psychological Defense Mechanism on Mental Health

The function of psychological defense mechanism on mental health is to motivate the subject to overcome difficulties and setbacks with tenacious perseverance.

1. Psychological defense mechanism is a function developed by ego under the pressure of superego, id and outside, that is, it mediates and alleviates the threat of conflict to itself in a certain way, so that reality allows, superego accepts and id is satisfied.

Some psychological defense mechanisms are beneficial to physical and mental health, while others are harmful to physical and mental health. The ideal psychological defense mechanism is sublimation, which is to express one's inner pain in a way that conforms to social ethics after encountering setbacks, such as through artistic creation.

3. A good psychological defense mechanism includes compensation, offset and humor. Compensation is to compensate the losses caused by setbacks from inner experience to behavior through other things after encountering setbacks.

4, offset is when there is a contradiction between desire and reality, with another symbolic thing to ease the contradiction. Humor is self-mockery. Humor can easily shorten the distance with people around you, and it can help you effectively seek social support.

Escape mechanism of psychological defense mechanism;

1, repression is the most basic method in various defense mechanisms. This mechanism means that individuals unconsciously reject and suppress some experiences and impulses that they cannot accept or are threatening and painful to the subconscious.

2. It is a kind of "motivational forgetting". When faced with unpleasant emotions, individuals will forget unconsciously and purposefully, which is different from the situation of natural forgetting for a long time.

3. On the surface, repression seems to forget things, but in fact, it is still subconscious and affects behavior at some point, so that in daily life, it may do something that it doesn't understand.

4. Denial is a relatively primitive and simple defense mechanism. The method is to avoid psychological pain by distorting the thoughts, emotions and feelings of individuals in traumatic situations, or to "deny" unpleasant events as if they had never happened, so as to obtain temporary psychological comfort.